Title:  Group Creative Director

Requisition ID: 252546 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

The Group Creative Director provides strategic leadership and oversight for all creative outputs within Lighthouse, ensuring work is on brand, strategically sound, and innovative across all touchpoints and geographies. This role sets the creative vision, drives excellence in concept development and execution, and fosters collaboration across teams to deliver impactful, business-aligned creative solutions. The Group Creative Director champions global brand consistency by working closely with the Creative Director, Brand & Design and Creative Director, IB, and partners with our Agency of Record (Rethink) to ensure creative excellence and alignment across all initiatives.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:  

This position holds accountability for the following:

• Creative Vision & Strategy: Define and articulate Lighthouse’s creative vision, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and global brand standards.
• Global Brand Consistency: Collaborate with the Global Creative Head to maintain brand integrity and elevate creative standards across all markets.
• Agency Partnership: Partner with our Agency of Record (Rethink) to deliver integrated, innovative creative solutions that meet strategic objectives.
• Creative Excellence: Oversee creative strategy and execution across all disciplines—design, copy, motion, and experiential—ensuring outputs are innovative, strategically sound, and culturally relevant.
• Innovation & Transformation: Drive adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, automation, and agile methodologies, to future-proof creative capabilities.
• Governance & Standards: Establish and maintain creative guidelines, best practices, and accessibility standards to ensure compliance and quality.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a senior advisor to marketing leadership, providing thought leadership and influencing creative direction at the enterprise level.
• Culture & Talent Development: Build and mentor a high-performance, inclusive creative team; foster collaboration, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
• Operational Partnership: Work closely with operational leads to ensure efficient workflows, resource allocation, and quality assurance across creative delivery.
• Financial Accountability: Manage creative budgets and identify opportunities for cost optimization without compromising quality.
• Standard Leadership Commitments:
• Leads and drives a client focused culture throughout the team to deepen relationships and leverage broader Bank systems and knowledge.
• Champions a high-performance environment and demonstrates a commitment to Scotiabank’s values: accountability, client-centric, integrity and inclusion. Delivers results in accordance to Scotiabank’s required values and behaviours. Creates an inclusive team culture and an environment where team members hear, share, and appreciate diverse perspectives.
• Directs day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with the Bank’s risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
• Implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates talent; uses a coaching mindset; manages succession and development planning.

Direct Reports: 3+

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

• 12+ years of experience in creative leadership roles within integrated marketing or agency environments.
• Proven track record of delivering innovative, strategically aligned creative work across multiple channels and markets.
• Strong understanding of global brand systems, cultural nuances, and localization strategies.
• Experience with agile workflows, AI tools, and emerging technologies in creative production.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence at senior levels.
• Portfolio demonstrating creative excellence and strategic thinking across diverse platforms.

Working Conditions

• Standard office environment; occasional non-standard hours to meet project deadlines. Remote flexibility as required.

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.